{"id":186013,"date":"2018-07-27T07:28:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=186013"},"modified":"2018-07-27T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:24:15","slug":"planned-parenthood-clinics-title-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-clinics-title-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood will lay off staff and close clinics if it loses tax funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After losing in court earlier this month, Planned Parenthood is seeking an emergency injunction in its appeal to stop the Department of Health and Human Services from adding the Protect Life Rule — because, they say, they would be “irreparably harmed” by it. As Live Action News previously reported<\/a>, “under the new rules, Title X projects will not be allowed to refer women for\u00a0abortions<\/a>. Any organization that receives family planning funds will also be required to keep facilities where abortions are committed separate from facilities where family planning care is provided.”<\/p>\n

Courthouse News reports<\/a>\u00a0that U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden previously ruled<\/a> that “the challenge was premature since the awards have not yet been granted,” but Planned Parenthood is saying if they wait and then don’t receive the money from taxpayers, they may have to pare down operations or close facilities:<\/p>\n

Attorney Paul Wolfson…\u00a0said Tuesday<\/span><\/span> that if his clients do not receive grants for the upcoming fiscal year, which the Department of Health and Human Services is poised to award mid-August, they will have to lay staff off in mass and possibly shutter clinics….”<\/em><\/p>\n

Courthouse News adds, “Department of Justice attorney Alicia Hunt meanwhile argued that any perceived harm to Planned Parenthood and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association\u00a0 is ‘speculative’ at this point, since they remain eligible to be awarded Title X grants.”<\/p>\n